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...land of beef-price plenty, Nebraska is a state where organized labor has little real influence, and the brightest spot in the Midwestern picture for Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDWEST: Congressional Fights Tax the G.O.P. | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...Attack. After each failure of McGowen and his crew, the neighborhood became more outraged. Complaints piled into department headquarters; the pressure increased. The dogcatchers tried every trick they knew. They loaded ground beef with dope tablets; Maverick found it, ate the meat, left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Maverick & the Hunt | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...Frozen Beef. In Sacramento, Calif., Loretta Weyant was granted a divorce on her testimony that after an argument, her husband had hung her from a meat hook in her restaurant's cold-storage room for two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

WHEN a big, secluded estate is rented by an eccentric couple who order beef by the side, buns by the gross-and when the delivery boy has to leave the supplies outside the fence -people are apt to be curious. For what a Buenos Aires cop discovered when he climbed the fence, see THE HEMISPHERE, Big Red Schoolhouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 13, 1958 | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...meat packers such as Swift (Pard) and Armour (Dash), who first hesitated out of fear that human customers might object, the market proved richer by the year. They stressed the idea of an unvarying diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Oh, for a Dog's Life | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

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